•Written by Nacho Mbaeliachi• ••Saturday•, 15 •March• 2008 22:30•
With a host of diplomats and policy wonks streaming into the city all year round, Geneva has long been known as the world’s political workshop. Yet its central location in Europe and its cosmopolitan atmosphere are now making it a leading literary centre, too, as demonstrated by the recent Sixth Biennial Geneva Writers Conference organized by The Geneva Writers’ Group. (The Group is holding its next regular meeting March 15, 2008, for prose and poetry. For further information, please see their website: http://www.genevawritersgroup.org/) The Essential Edge reminds new and experienced writers that they may contribute essays, short stories and sample chapters of book projects to the Writers’ Table for reader comment and response. Please email suggestions or texts with bio info to: •This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it•
The organizers billed the February 3-4, 2008 gathering as one of the biggest and most intensive of its kind in Europe with hundreds of writers from across the globe pouring into the city. Some of the major attractions this year were Kwame Kwei Armah, a Bafta nominated playwright and authors Philip Graham, Thomas E. Kennedy, Nahid Rachlin. Literary agents Laura Longrigg and Lisa Dawson and publishers David Applefield and Bill Newlin were also present scouting for talent among the writers who came from over thirty countries.
According to Susan Tiberghien, the organiser, what sets the Geneva conference apart from its rivals is the quality of training provided to the writers. There is a full weekend of workshops, panel discussions, question and answer periods, discussions and readings. Areas covered include fiction, non-fiction, poetry and critiquing of manuscripts. The conference also provides access to leading agents and publishers from across the United States and Europe. The first Geneva Writers Conference was held in 1998. It is the successor to the writers’ conference that was held first in Berne and then Zurich. It was founded by author Susan Tiberghien, an American citizen who has lived in Switzerland since 1967 to help promote and develop writing talents in the Europe and beyond.
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